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Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 9 Entries.
Friday, March 8 View Page
Spread 50 pounds of sulfur powder this evening as the first step in knocking down the pH in the patch. That 1000-pounder shall not elude me this year!
 
Saturday, March 9 View Page
Paying the kids 10 cents per pound to pick rocks and junk out of the patch. A short session yielded 27 pounds of debris.
 
Sunday, April 7 View Page
First wave of starts. These were blindly selected by the kids. I’ll make my own selections for the second wave, somewhere around 4/17.
 
Monday, April 29 View Page
Tilling in the amendments for 2019. Growing three pumpkins and one squash this year.
 
Monday, April 29 View Page
Opposite view of the patch.
 
Monday, April 29 View Page
1533 Kline squash is the current leader at Day 19.
 
Monday, May 6 View Page
The squash are in the ground. Two squash down, six pumpkins to go!
 
Monday, May 6 View Page
All eight in the ground. Next comes the tilling.
 
Monday, May 6 View Page
Finished product from Sunday. The patch is a rice paddy this morning because of the overnight deluge, but the plan is to set up the irrigation later this week.
 

 

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